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OW»U: Late Piayor Strong. L. Strong was Born to Ohio It llSl and went to New York when a young man. He found employment with different firms until January 1. lire, when he dfonised the Ann of, L. Stron* tc Co. The firm to <be one of the prominent busl- ? *ess houses In the city. He also inter­ ested himself in banking matters and| president of the Central National, Mr. Strong took an active In- it politics, and was one of th« leaders ot the reform movement in was elected mayor on itizens' Union ticket 2894. fie was tie last mayor of . the old city of New York before con- •oMttion with Brooklyn and the other "••-•jKHttalghS composing the present city of . *Mr ' " At fhe time of his deaths Mr. Strong: a member of a number of socie­ ties. iuclu^ng the Ohio Society, Amer­ ican Fine Alls Society, "American Mu­ seum of Natural History, Metropolitan Museum rtmw i i l i and Amer i can Ge- op««thlcal Soci^ty. At a mass meeting ta Wadieon Sq^re Garden in 1894, * committee of seventy was to orgfeniie the opposition to ̂ Munmany Hall, to frame a platform and select candidates for office, and it was this committee that selected Mr. run for mayor on the reform The nomination was accept­ ed a{|&the candidate entered into the with vigor and determina- opponent was Hugh J. Grant &»* JketreM* Not until tlie: •bbOj^jqf., Asa Pacini Wilder had lain for ttf&bft days in the Fitters Field was it tffceovered that *« was a nephew of t&ft fcte Asa Pack, ££*• Pennsylvania andheir to *5,000,- ®f* ot fortune. Aliarch for rela. ^ of the supposed pauper revealed ^ Was * niece. She was ml0wn to the San Francisco stage as the beautiful VMa Sajrae. She is now the wife of Archie BUie of Brooklyn and * still Tory beautiful woman i ' 1 .. Jf A f* •- Jrf'/. r i,.- , r ! ^ W K- j THE LATE W. L. STRONGKf mid the contest was a bitter one. The outcome was the election of Mr. Strong .•Ifjr a plurality of 47,187. The adminis­ tration of Mr. Strong was an eventful,, one. It was he who appointed ColoneP Waring commissioner of street clean- ijV spite of periods of strong in within and outside the par- in office until 4he end of term. , of the police department lH^ced in the hands of a head of which was Theo- dof« |?^6ss«eit, whose earlier confreres. were Colonel Fred D. Grant, Major A/rery D. Andrews and Mr. Parker. was often accused of wast- on improvements. His in- reply was that wherever he IH^Psr lie "had a dollar's worth for it." Mr. Strong was avow- independent in his views on city politics. In the municipal campaign of 1897, which resulted in the return of IPajBinany to power, he took the Seth Low, as against Gen­ eral I ienjamin F. Tracy, the regular R#oMteaa candidate. After this elec- tioi*virtually retired from active pdliba* on account of failing health. He spoke for Colonel Roosevelt, how­ ever, in 1898, and had since been in- teevsted and influential in the councils ofthe independent wing of the Repub­ lican party of Kings county. Xftitixin# Water fobuer. The technical press of Europe Just Sfcw abounds in descriptions of the V VILA SAYNB. Steps will at once be taken to obtain her great inheritance. - * * ***YP -V A Cantonese tette. China is divided into eighteen prov­ inces, and the dialects spoken in these states vary to so great a degree that the people of Can­ ton--properly, Ku ! ang-tung -- entire­ ly fail to compre­ hend the speech of their brethren of the north or west. The Cantonese are pure Chinese; the ruling dynasty is Manchu, or Tartar. Our illustration represents a Can­ tonese girl, comely enough even from *? ^meri<*n P°int Belle of Canton, of view. The dress of the Chinese women is always sober in hue, though rich in texture and harmoniously blended as to color. It is elaborately embroidered in charac­ teristic designs. Chinese women of the lower classes put their savings mostly into expensive garments, furs and jewelry, and when evil days fall recourse is had to the pawnbroker, who is a very important member of the business world in the Middle Kingdom. The headdress of the Chi­ nese woman is always elaborate, and none are too poor to indulge in orna­ ments for their ears and hair. Natural flowers are also an important feature in the adornment of the hair. Hats and bonnets are unknown. Long fin­ ger nails are regarde#«* * a;,mar||ii'\Q$ breeding«and wealth., • > » " V ' V . ; Holds ifour Coat for you. We illustrate below a novel which might be the irfeam the price of a tip for ttte g1 f the coat, provided the own,e% res­ taurant *or other public- see fit ,to place iMn. positlo^ftyr use. The inventor's intention is to provide a device which will hold a man's over­ coat in position while the arms are inserted and the coat adjusted to* its proper position. Heavy spring wire is The cranberry crop in central Wisconsin has Wen harvested, milled, barreled and is rapidly being shipped to market . v , . ' Very few people have much of an idea of how cranberries grow or what the vines look like; whether they resemble gooseberry bushes or to­ mato vines. The cranberry is a very modest little grower and the vines seldom reach a height of over eight laches, and a patch that Is well covered with berries might be passed over by a casual observer without noticing the fruit at all. One class of people who engage largely in this occupation is the native Indian, and they often constitute one-fifth of those working on the marsh. The Indians travel for miles to reach the chanberry marshes, bringing the whole family in a rattletrap wagon pulled by a team of horses that one would think had outlived' their usefulness years before. When they reach the neighborhood of the marsh their tent Is pitched, generally in the brushiest, meanest place possible to find, and they settle down to house*- keeping with all the contentment born of a life in the woods. These In­ dians are generally pretty intelligent people and the men are usually able to carry on a conversation in broken English. The women, however, do not seem to understand much English and avoid the white people as much as possible. The Indians are the last to get to work in the morning and the first to Quit at night, and they draw their salary every evening on their way from the marsh. * ; dent who ex­ hibits at, ti4v1^ff^p<^i8iliB^wi- edges- that chine tools and minor mechanical ap­ pliance the United Stale% is far in the lead. The chief :J&,ifctes, is the system of interchangeable farts, which has been so highly prali6<S re­ cently by other British observers, notably the correspondent of the Lon­ don Times, who investigated gather fully American competition with Xing- land in engineering. The Chronicle's correspondent says that the superior­ ity of technical education in the United States Is one z^eaaon for Amer­ ican pre-eminence in engineering, and he also mentions a point overlooked by most writers, but which in fftet is largely responsible for our progress. This is that "the accomplished opera­ tive mechanic is a person ot consid­ eration and importance" in the United States, which he is not in Great Brit­ ain. The lad of good family who has a taste for mechanics is sent to a great university in America, astd there he receives a thorough technical training. It is, tlien, the democracy of the American people and the ab­ sence of the class distinction Which have brought about and maintains American pre-eminence in manufac­ turing and mechanical industries. A statue in memory of Rev. Adin Ballou, the reformer and writer, » gift of General W. F. Draper, lately ambassador to Italy, has been unveiled at Hopedale, Mass. The memorial occupies the site of the clergyman's home. The lot and the pedestal of the statue were purchased by popu­ lar subscription. Governor Pingree of Michigan, speaking of his political life, has told the newspapers that they may erect his monument and write his epitaph. He haB taken no part In the present campaign, as his health required quiet and sareful nursing. Hart on "Bojeer H:smg, The Fortnightly Review contains an article on tha Boxer uprising by Sir Robert Hart, who is of all men the most competent to discuss the Chi­ nese situation. Hs declares that the rebellion was essentially a national uprising that had for its object the checking of foreign influence in the empire, and it was based upon the mature conviction that "a system of volunteer defense would succeed in bringing this about. The foreign min­ isters had been wairned again and again, but none of the European of­ ficials realized the magnitude of the movement: The most interesting fea­ ture of the article is Sir Robert's pre­ diction that the Chinese will rise again. The national spirit will, In his opinion, continue to increase, and be­ fore 100 years at the mo^t the "yel­ low peril"must be faced by Europeans.. When that time comes the Chinese will be well drilled and well armed, for that is the lesson that has been taught the Celestials by their failure. He then argues against further Eu­ ropean interference . in the affairs of the empire arid the pressing of de­ mands for reparation, although in fact the facts as stated by hirn lead ir­ resistibly to the judgment that Eu­ ropean control would be the only way In which to stave off the threatened uprising, for the thorough policing of ithft. empffre' would serve to prevent ^another such rising without due warn­ ing of its imminence, and such warn­ ing would enable : the taking of ef- Ve • measures and would prevent a repetition of the suspense through whirh the civilized world passed while the legations were' under siega. Mrs. Baden-Powell, the mother of the hero of Mafeking, is an astrono­ mer, and has translated into English several foreign books on astronomy. tJAp vOitauuu \/f 1? power. France, Ctaly and Switzerland are just discov­ ering the. amount of energy that goes to waste on their water sheds. Costly Mask coal is to be replaced with the "white coal," as the snow and gtactecs of the Alps have been called. v An advantage of Che white fuel is that s S is constantly renewed by the energy the son, whereas the black product «f the same energy stowed In the earth )s subject to exhaustion. "Britons DUUKf JLansdobtme. i' Clad in the robes of dazzling fail* is theqip^:one London news­ paper describes the Marquis of Lans- downe's entry into the foreign office. This, undoubtedly, expresses the opin­ ion of a preponder­ ance of the British public irrespect­ ive of party lines. Even among those organs feebly up­ holding the advis- of Lord Lansdowne's appoint­ ee is a tendency to allocate position of a mere nominal I the foreign office blindly fol- out every wish of the premier. Seddon, the premier of New has proposed that the post- island establish a discount ent, at which stamps government and gfeven lers as discount on pur- hlch cash was paid oould tiieir face value in HOLDER REQUIRES NO TIP. used for its construction and the arms are formed to spread the coat out and expose the armholes, holding the coat in this position as long as the pres­ sure is downward, but folding together and withdrawing themselves from the back as soon as the wearer of the coat straightens himself up and relieves the weight on the spring arms. The mechanism is very simple and as the arms are pivoted on the wall support the device can be folded against the wall when in use and can also be used as an ordinary coat and hat rack. Fa*bi<>n Hint, Illustration shows a gown of brocaded satin. The skirt is plain to the hem and is trimmed there with knots of black velvet rib­ bon. The bodice is plain, with small revers of panne opening over a shirred vest front of silk mousseline. Behind these are larger revers of stitched white panne. The should­ ers are covered with a narrow fold of panne. The cos­ tume shows what may be done with ft figured gown. The arrangements for carrying out Alfred Ncfoei'a testamentary disposi­ tions regarding his property are now completed, and it is announced that afcout *37,500 will be annually distrlb- irted in prizes to inventors, savants, authors and promoters of peace. ^Ptearing ffite of Sfa>amp<s. • f f l v$ii wmi ,W *• •STMMBB HNJUHGAMt A HAlr One of the results of British occupation of Egypt has been the opening of communication between the White Nile and the Victoria Nile, whleh every year is interrupted by the "sudd" or floating islands of marsh which obstruct navigation in the Nile between Fashoda and Lado. Under the old regime many efforts were made at various times to remove the "sudd," and some of these5, attempts were temporarily successful, but the effect Of the work was not {lasting, and soon the channel filled again. Under the Dervish rule, nothing at all was done in this direction. But after the reconquest of the Soudan the Egyptian government took up *the problem, and last winter began a fresh attempt to remove the "sudd." These "sudd" marshes are probably the largest series of marshes in the world. Although the actual limits are not known, the total area is placed at not less than 12,000 square miles. The depression which they oc­ cupy once was a lake. Here grows the papyrus; the Um soof, by which name, meaning "Mother of Wool," the Arabs call a tall reed which is covered with prickly hairs; the ambatch, a tree-like shrub, which i3 light­ er than cork, and many flowering creepers, which twine themselves through the mass and add to the tangle. Those who are obliged to work in these swamps suffer from depres­ sion of spirits. The heat, even in the Winter, is intense, and the air is saturated with humidity." Malaria is ever present, and from April to Oc­ tober the rainfall lis continuous. The only inhabitants are a few negroes who just manage to live by fishing. Mosquitoes are couiitless, and in the night their murmur is like the diapason of organ. Sir Samuel Baker, the* African explorer, calls this region "a heaven for mosquitoes and a, damp hell for men,": ". "BelaJed Ejc- Warship St. Pa a l,.J)isa,b fed. i The big ocean liner St. 'Paul, which did such valiant service during the late war, while en route from Havre to New York encountered a wreck, Which raised the ship's starboard propeller out of the water. The absence of resistance caused the propeller to spin at a rate which broke the tail shaft and wrecked the starboard engine. The damage amounts to several hun­ dred thousand dollars and will take six months to repair. Actress Sltrs jKU London. Since Mrs. Patrick Campbell began to produce "Mr, and Mrs. Daventry," at the Royalty theater, London, last week the dramatic columns of the press are filled not only with com­ ments on the play, but on the per­ sonality of the actress. . A composite opinion is somewhat on this order: Mrs! Campbell is an actress of emin­ ent talent; she has no business to stoop to plays of the Oscar Wilde va­ riety; Mrs. Campbell'#! dramatic abil­ ities, however, would help to purify society if utilized to infuse a lothing for scenes of depravity so common In the English "haut monde." Mrs. Campbell has perhaps more fervent admirers and more fervent de­ tractors than any other actress in Erfgland. For this reason, no matter what piece she may produce, it will be praised by the former and con-, delnned by the latter. And her friends are so many that even "Mr. and Mrs. Daventry" is tolerated. Ip private life no one could ever conceive that Mrs. Campbell's taste runs in anything but the course of strict ethical purity. At home in Kensington square she receives in an Informal way many of the distin­ guished lights of Londc.tr, politicians, Kndobtred Cheaters. Robert Stodart, in the current In­ dependent, suggests a hew field for philanthropy--the endowment of thea­ ters. He starts with the proposition that "the way we play influences us quite as profoundly as does the way we work." He painstakingly refutes "the fallacy that the theater is mere­ ly a place of amusement." He fttly deplores "the dramatic chaos conse­ quent upon purely speculative man­ agement of our stage." He truly af­ firms that "the great bulk of the American people are morally sound, eager to learn* no more averse to listening *up4 than to reading 'up.' He correctly declares that "the aim of every civilized nation should be to have its tfieater truly represent its people." He concludes that "a wise­ l y g o v e r n e d a u u w e l l - t r o d s t w o u l d not appeal in vain, and that an en­ dowed theater, conservatively man­ aged, would pay." Queen Victoria holds the tl$o ot duke of Lancaster. Most people Im­ agine that her title of duke of Lan­ caster merges in her superior title of queen, but that is not so, as she would remain duke of Lancaster even If she ceased to be queen. *Rex)t%tal of Sailing Ships. It is a singular illustration of the way in which the general belief is sometimes in error that statistics aw produced showing the widespread ides that steam has displaced sail power in ocean transportation to be decid­ edly in error. The fact is that sail power now carries nearly half the world's freights and a full half of the tonnage of the vessels built last year was composed of sailing vessels. The reason for this return in the direction of sail power is its evident economy. &RS. PATRICK CAMPBEL?* painters, authors, actors, and she fcat quite a following of society ladle*. Seven miles is the greatest recorded height ever reached by a balloon. Slatin Pasha, who was believed to have bidden a final adieu to Egypt, !e on his way back to the Soudan, where he will be governor of Xhartoum un­ der Sir Reginald Wingais, the new sirdar. He had, as he thought, set­ tled down for good In Vienna, but now bears out the ancient Egyptian beliel that he who once drinks of the Nil« will long to repeat the draught. Re*r. Otho F. Humphreys, for flu years past reotor of St Mark's Eptocfr pa] dburch of Milwaukee, has quit thf pulpit to engage Hn /business pursuit* boarding and 1 e transportation £•«#• Vtemlljr side headache.* Siaid? 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ShektauMMlel that She4ost the use of her right arm and side, and we thought at one time she would 1om kef speech Her tongue was almost paralysed, fhe was so bad she rouid not feed herself, aad at aisrht she would get so nervous I had to sit and hold her 1 tried several doctors, but they did aat doner any good. 1 did not find anything that would help her until I ttied Or. G recac'a Jlarvaaa M e e d a n d n e r v e r e m t d y . S h e i s n o w , b y t h e u » e o f t h i s m e d i c i n e , e n t i r e l y c * l * d * • • - , * C. H. Bailey, Esq., of Waterbury, Vt., writes: ' I am more than glad to write about my little daughter. Until a short time ago aim fcai ~a*> i been a very drlicate child and subject to sick spelts lasting weeks at a time. She was very nervous, and our family doctor said we would never raise her, she was so delicate and fceMa. We tried many remedies without the least good. 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